Assembling-guide buffer and matrik-delivery-belt-entrance cover



E. VILLARREAL. v ASSEMBLING GUIDE BU'FFER AND MATRIX DELIVERY BELT ENTRANCE COVER.

APPLICATION FILED MAR. 28. 1921.

J1 ,QQ3 3fiU Patented Jan. '10, 11922.

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ENRZQ'UE VILLARREAL, OE NEW YGRK, N. Y.

ASSEMBLING-G'UIDE BUFFER AND MATREX-DELIVERY-BELT-ENTEANGE COVER.

Application filed. March 28, 1921.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that l, ENnr Un Vrnnannnan, a citizen of Mexico, residing at New York, in the county of New York and State of New York, have invented new and useful Improvements in an Assembling-Guide Buffer and Matrix-Delivery-Eelt-lflntrance (lover, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in assembling mechanism such as is used as a part of a linotype machine.

More particularly the invention relates to means used in conjunction with the assembler guides for directing the matrices as they pass from the magazine to the assembler, and for covering the portion of the matrix delivery belt at and near the ends of the assembler chute rails under a portion of which the belt moves.

Tt has been found f om experience that the assembling mechanism of a linotype niaohine is not altogether practical for its intended purpose, because it does not embody a means for giving the proper trajectory to the matrices for their proper passage to the assembler, especially those matrices which are destined to pass from the first six or eight channels. It has been found that the matrices which pass from the first six or eight channels descend from the magazine in. substantially astraight line. in so passing in a straightline the matrices fall hard on the assembler chute rails causing their mutilation and necessarily their deterioration. it has also been found that because of the necessary requirement, a space is left between the top lead of the matrix delivery belt and the ends of the assembler chute rails. The space mentioned allows the thin matrices to become lodged therein with the result that other matrices which follow are precipitated against such matrices which have passed before. The precipitation of the matrices against each other ruins the combination notches of all of the matrices in time and of course renders the matrices useless. The matrices in becoming lodged at the point where the delivery belt passes beneath the assembler chute rails, causes the operator much inconvenience, and also causes delay which is detrimental. Speed is the first essential in getting work done especially in printing-the kind for which linotype machines were invented.

The principal object of the present invention is to overcome the above mentioned dis- Speeification of Letters Eatent.

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advantages and to this end an assembling guide preferably but not necessarily the sixth guide from the assembler chute-4s provided with a thin flexible element which is curved forwardly so as to extend under the fifth, fourth and third guides, and endbetween the second and first guides. The inaj or portion of the said element is disposed at a slight angle to a horizontal plane and spaced approximately one-fourth of an inch from the ends of the longest of the guides under which it extends, and spaced about the same distance from the top lead of the delivery belt and the assembler chute rails.

In the drawing forming a part of this specification:

Figure l is a view of a portion of the as sembling mechanism, and illustrating the application of the present invention.

Figure- 2 is an edge view of a guide with the directing and retarding element attached thereto.

It will be manifest if the purport of the present invention is thoroughly understood that it. involves the combination of a plurality of assembling guides, the assembler l "t 'l t lel'Y r b t tl ciu e and 11 1o ma iix coin cry or w- 1 an element or its equivalent secured and disposed with relation to the said guldes, chute and belt.

In are 1 there is shown so much of an ass mechanism as is necessary for a c derstandlng of the invention. The assembling mechanism includes guides 10 which are disposed between the matrix mag azino and the assembler chute which embodies rails 11. The assembling mechanism includes a matrix delivery belt 12 which l in juxtaposition to the guides 10 chute rails ll. The top lead of the belt 1:3 passes beneath the ends of the rails ii. The belt 19. moves counter, clockwise. e is necessary between the top lead of t 12 and the ends of the rails 11 for oper action of the said belt. T he point ich-the belt passes beneath the chute rails occurs in the vicinity of the first six guides at the assembler side of the mechanism. The channels formed by the first six guides are such that the matrices embodying the letters e, t, a, o, i, n and s, which are given the first channels, respectively, because of the frequency with which they are used, descend from the matrix magazine in a substantial straight line in upright position against the belt 12 or rails 11.

In order that the matrices which are guided through the first five channels may be directed with the proper trajectory for the proper translation to the assembler, the sixth guide G has secured to the end thereof in any suitable manner an element E. The-element E is preferably of thin-steel having the proper flexibility. One end of the element E is preferably brazed tothe guide G-andthe opposite end and in fact the major portion of the said element extends beneath l-he adjacent guides as shown because the element is curved to allow the portion 10 to be so disposed. Itmay be seen that the portion 10 is in spaced relation tothe ends of the guides beneath which it is disposed and that it is spaced from the toplead of the belt 12,

and that it extends over the ends of the rails 11. The extreme end .of the element G will be beyond the point at which thetoplead of the belt passes beneath the ends of the rails 11. By virtue of the use of the element E and the manner in which it is disposed the matrices are given the proper trajection for presentation to rails 11 on their sides and without possibility of being held by the ends of the rails in the space between the same andthe top lead of the belt 12. In giving the matrices the proper trajectory their sharp'contact with the parts of the assembler chute is eliminated thus prolonging the life of each matrix. The matrices having the capital letters which are compara- .tively thiclgordinarily move with greater force than the thin matrices. The free'end portion 10 mitigates the force of the thick matrices as they pass beneath the same on the top lead of the belt. v

From the foregoing it Will be manifest that provision-is made for the obtainment of a highly desirable result; that the means employed for carrying out the result is simple and practical; and that the saving and a flexible element secured to, one of said guide to which said element is se- 7 guides and having a portion thereof extending laterallyiwith respect to the same and traversing the ends of certain guides adjacent the guide to which the said elementis secured.

3. Type casting machine assembling mech anism including a plurality of guides, a driven matrix delivery belt, and a flexible element secured to one of the guides and havin a portion thereof extendinglaterally and s ightl'y inclined and traversing the ends ofcertain guides adjacent the guide to which the said element is secured and in spacedrrelation to the ends of the guides it traverses, and the top lead of the said belt.

4:. Type casting machine assembling mechanism including aplu rality of guides; a

driven matrix delivery belt, and a curyed flexible element secured to one of the guldes and having a portion thereof extending in the direction toward which the top lead of i said belt moves, the said portion ofthe ele ment being spaced fromthe'said top lead and from the ends of certainv guides adjacent the guide to which the said element is secured. V

In testimony whereof I hereby aflix my signature. V

- ENRIQUE VILLARREAL. 

